Issue Notes

Indicia title is "JACE PEARSON OF THE TEXAS RANGERS, No. 648." Code number is J.P.O.S. #648-559. Copyright 1955 by Stacy Keach. This Four Color issue comes after "Jace Pearson of the Texas Rangers" (Dell, 1953 series) #9 (February-April 1955) and before "Jace Pearson's Tales of the Texas Rangers" (Dell, 1955 series) #11 (November 1955-February 1956), so it was apparently intended to be #10 of one of the series. Based on the 1950-52 NBC "Tales of the Texas Rangers" radio series.

Will Fife's house sits on the county line between Cahoga County and Mesa County and he uses the difference in jurisdiction between the two counties to avoid answering to either county's sheriff when he's accused of smuggling and murder. Pearson and Morgan are assigned to investigate.

Pearson is visiting an state penitentiary when three convicts try to escape. When Pearson leaves the prison he finds that one of the escapees was hiding in the back seat of his car. The convict changes clothes with Pearson, slugs him and leaves him along the side of the road.